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Clinical Articles / BY: Travis Holyk, MA, EdD November 2017
... geographic remoteness, and inclement weather.[ 1 ] Generally speaking, residents of rural communities have ... lower socioeconomic status than residents of urban areas.[ 1 ] As well, rural BC is home to many First Nations ... high proportion of residents who identify as Aboriginal.[ 1 ]  First Nations communities in British Columbia remain ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC November 2017
... bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM).[ 1 ] The current state of STIs Syphilis disproportionately ... it was underpowered for this outcome (OR 0.24; 95% CI 0.04-1.33). Similarly, doxycycline has now been studied for STI ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2017
... BCMA needed a full-time communications expert. First, on 1 September 1965, Premier W.A.C. Bennett introduced the BC ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Susan Papadionissiou May 2017
... is a core attribute of the patient medical home model,[ 1 ] and a key foundational piece in building an integrated ... does not rest solely on the physician’s shoulders.[ 1 ] Much of the work toward developing a team-based care ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD June 2017
Over 1 in 10 households in BC are food insecure, and approximately 1 in 6 children under the age of 18 lives in a food-insecure household.[ 1 ] Food insecurity is not caused by a lack of budgeting, ...
Letters / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC September 2017
... regarding anxiety and depression in young adults with type 1 diabetes in a university clinic setting [ BCMJ ... that may be of interest to young adults living with type 1 diabetes. The website of the Endocrinology and Diabetes ... Hospital has numerous handouts for patients with type 1, their caregivers, and their medical providers ( ...
News / BY: Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD, MHSc December 2017
... Program supports interprofessional team training through 1) the establishment of a unified portal for EM-related CPD ...
News / BY: Rory Sutherland, UBC MD Candidate, Class of 2019 March 2017
... to be an important independent risk factor for AsCVD.[ 1 ] Risk is further increased by a younger age of onset in ...
Letters / BY: David D.W. Twa, BSc October 2017
... news stories, peer-reviewed articles, and opinion pieces[ 1 ] have debated how eased restrictions on marijuana ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jerry C. Chen, MD, FRCSC October 2017
... raised superficial veins in a lower extremity [ Figure 1 ] . Indications for treatment include leg pain, persistent ... dilatation, which leads to valve failure and reflux flow.[ 1 ] Normally, venous return in the leg consists of blood ... system developed by the American Venous Forum ( Table 1 ).[ 2 ] Indications for treatment include leg pain, ...